20 Boise State with another late Mangum TD pass
BYU, with back-up quarterback Tanner Mangum playing for the injured Taysom Hill, won at Nebraska 33-28 on a Hail Mary pass and Boise State defeated Washington 16-13. The big night arrived on the heels of two Power Five victories. I remember when I made the (final) catch I didn’t realize how big of a play it was until I was sitting on the sideline feeling the energy of the crowd and then it hit me, and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh!’” “As a kid you always dream about having big-time plays in a big rivalry game. “It was pretty surreal,” Juergens recalls. As an undersized target, he was the decoy who turned out to be the hero. Both sent a packed Edwards Stadium into a frenzy, but neither pass was intended to be caught by Juergens. One score came in the first minute and the second was caught in the last.
I sat up and saw everybody celebrating with Mitch.” - BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum Again, I didn’t see the ball being caught, but I heard the crowd erupt. I just did my best to put the ball up toward that space he was running to.
